"The Rift doesn't just swallow ships; it swallows history. My job is to spit it back out. I've pulled flight logs from cruisers that shouldn't exist for another century and decoded distress beacons that have been screaming in binary since the Awakening. People call me a hacker, a spy, an obsessive… but when the navigation computer fails and the stars go wrong, they always ask me what the screens are really saying."
Dataphile Background
Source Starfinder Society Invasion’s Edge Player’s Guide pg. 7
Information is more valuable—and volatile—than raw mana. While others hunt for credits or glory, you hunt for truth. You are a Dataphile: a collector of lost codecs, a diver into the corrupted archives of dead starships, and a broker of secrets that governments (and the Chronologists Guild) would kill to suppress. Whether you serve as a dedicated researcher or work as a freelance "info-archeologist" for the Riftspanner Consortium, you know that the right string of data can collapse a blockade faster than any laser battery.
Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute boost.
You're trained in the Computers skill and the Infosphere Lore skill. You gain the Digital Diversion skill feat.
Signature Customs
Data-Tattoos: Many Dataphiles encrypt their most precious finds into skin-glyphs that can only be read by specific optical scanners.
The "Dead-Drop" Habit: A paranoia-induced ritual of leaving backup drives in physical locations (loose hull panels, ancient libraries) just in case they don't make it back from a dive.
Guild Slang: Referencing "ghost-data" (corrupted files that seem to predict future events) or "breeding code" (self-replicating ancient malware).
Character Hooks
The Lost Log: You possess a fragment of data from a ship that vanished during the First Rift. It’s incomplete, but the coordinates point to a sector that doesn't exist on any modern chart.
Chronologist Ties: The Chronologists Guild views you as either a useful asset or a dangerous leak. Do you trade secrets with their Time-Keepers, or are you running from them?
The Glitch: You once plugged into a precursor obelisk and saw something that wasn't code. Now, sometimes, the machines talk to you before you even touch the keys.
Starfall Variants
Rift-Archeologist: Specializes in retrieving data from ships mutated by Rift energy.
Corporate Espionage Archivist: A Dataphile who weaponizes history to invalidate corporate patents or blackmail CEOs.
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